Dakota Beacon

Yes, the legislature loves to dish out tax relief at opportune times, a small enough gesture to fend off popular demands for a serious reckoning. To do this now and then serves their political purposes. Like the federal income tax, property tax is a tool for political manipulation. It is a device for government intrusion into the private sector, picking winners and losers at the taxpayers’ expense. We see how well that works on the national level! Wouldn’t we all like to gamble with huge amounts of other people’s money and reward friends? The property tax has been “fixed” 135 times since 1981 and is still one big lemon for us all to suck on.

Our original rights freed us from the state's power. Nowadays, most alleged "rights" increase the state's power over us.

Our Founding Fathers had firsthand experience in dealing with hardships associated with religious freedom and the lack thereof. It was so important that the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights protected our religious liberties. Today not much has changed in regard to the threats to our religious freedoms, and the very same protection is needed.

. . . I didn’t think it would happen this fast, Bill and Jane Marcil have emerged as leading philanthropists, Peggy Lee, TAT chairman Tex Hall, Tex Hall wants an additional $12 million, dangerous roads in the oil patch, dangerous roads in the oil patch, young families are commuting from small communities, Williston has an immediate need for 7,000 homes, man camps are an alternative to chaos, oil field trash, Westbound coal trains are usually empty, Riding a Roan Horse, Careless Czesia has drug charges, DAKTOIDS. . . .

Despite the fact that President Hoover increased government spending and debt, his approach was labeled “free market.” The exact opposite is true. When running against Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover actually argued that Roosevelt would make things worse by lowering taxes and decreasing spending. Roosevelt responded by accusing Hoover’s administration of being a profligate spender.

Voters don’t necessarily elect candidates to “get things done.” “Getting things done” is clichéd rhetoric; it is more of a problem than a solution. Elected officials keep “getting things done” at voters‘ expense. Whether for appearance sake or to buy votes by bringing home the bacon, “getting things done” is one of the reasons we’re in the sorry economic quandary we find ourselves today. Americans are never safer than when congress is in recess.

. . . the little ND brothers and sisters were working hard; Little Missouri State Park; theoretical maximum; Our leaders must step up to the plate; desperate families looking for jobs in the oil economy; one of the biggest controversies in western ND; a 3,000-person facility proposed in Dickinson; barriers to the free flow of labor; April issue of "fedgazette; Common Schools Trust Fund; Norma changed her name to Peggy Lee; McClusky Canal; Great Lakes Airlines . . . .

And now think about this: If Obama was willing to drop the marriage mask before the election, what masks will be dropped after it when, as he said to Dmitry Medvedev, he has “more flexibility”?

The irony here is that the health Nazis would have had the overindulgent Ohio mother’s back if she’d ended her boy’s life in the womb. 

All this will guarantee my swift impeachment and removal from the presidency, since Congress will surely regard keeping my oath to uphold the Constitution as chief among "high crimes and misdemeanors."

So, why not exponentially increase this benefit?  Why not spread it around to all taxpayers?  Because, obviously, if you did THAT, you wouldn’t have all that power and influence to peddle anymore.  And that would be a shame.  No more sweetheart deals, no more kickbacks.  Just plain old opportunity for all North Dakotans.  No more unfair advantages to sell.

Likewise, Marx wrote this: “the theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” Yes, liberals place all kinds of restrictions on private property, but I know of no Congressional Democrat who would go as far as Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Castro.

Are America’s citizens, especially her youth, capable of electing a congress and an executive qualified to lead us back to the status of a respected world leader?

History has a funny way of repeating itself. Today Heidi Heitcamp is trying to distance herself from the Democratic Party while trying to convince us that she believes in North Dakota values.

The depression of 1920-21 was as severe and rapid an economic contraction as any in U.S. history. Unlike the contraction in 1929-30 that eventually persisted for 12 years, the severe depression in the early ‘20s ended in 1922. By 1923, the economy was firing on all cylinders. Why?

Ah, those scripts. In the old days, and let us not hesitate to call them the good old days, literate men like Morrie Ryskind, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, and Raymond Chandler wrote screenplays worthy of the best actors.

Of course, there's no reason to believe that Hokumhontas was actually qualified for her Harvard position in the first place.  Having listed herself as a "native American" in a directory of law professors for the decade prior to her affirmative-action hiring, it's all but certain that she was playing upon the female-minority quota daily double — and benefitted from it.  And all this based on supposedly having had a great-great-great grandmother who was Cherokee, which would account for 1/32^nd of Warren's heritage.

Scam is in the air; “worst place on earth”: Let’s not become the third Dakota; the “oldest old; a horrendous, growing problem; Williams County (Williston) created 12,000 jobs; crime boom; University of Mary in Bismarck; Medcenter One in Bismarck and Sanford Health; Fighting Sioux nickname; “Indoor RV park”; Frankly, Jellybean is not ready; DAKTOIDS . . .

Afghanization succeeds only if it proceeds with a bodyguard of political and economic reforms compelling the Afghan people to fight for themselves. Otherwise, Afghanization only needs to endure until early November and the re-election of President Obama.

ND’s capitol is “terrible, it’s embarrassing,”; “commands the prairie with simple, lean authority”; “It’s beautiful and simple; offer free college tuition to all Nodaks; legislative leaders and their lemming-like followers; UAS graduates find jobs with drone manufacturers; average full professor makes $100,000; a Buffalo Chip on Jessica Vega; grass is “flammable as gasoline; both parties go away happy; Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp; meth use and sales are increasing; ND traffic accidents are rising . . .

The ingenuity of Americans to assemble the component pieces of economic energy—and to convert that economic energy into economic abundance and wealth—is an American success story. Wealth generation is the outcome of Americans freely conducting their lives as they see fit in the pursuit of happiness. The perpetual motion machine of Americanism is driven by freedom; the freedom to obtain, assemble, and release economic energy and create wealth.

What other purpose does the Pledge really serve? It teaches an unreflective loyalty to the government, rather than an intelligent attachment to the principles of the Constitution. The Constitution never speaks of the United States as a single and monolithic "nation." It always refers to them in the plural. There is a reason for this, but most Americans have forgotten it. Even Lincoln sometimes spoke of the United States as a "confederacy."

. . . Richard Dawkins suggested that it may have been seeded on this earth by aliens. It is truly hard to believe that a serious scientist would even entertain such a fantastical speculation. This is, however, what happens when even intelligent men try to avoid the obvious implications of science. They start talking about aliens and such.

Will it require increasing other taxes?

How can it be administered?

29,617 voting age North Dakotans signed petitions to place Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 2 on the June 12, 2012 Primary Election ballot. Measure No. 2 eliminates property taxes and requires replacement of the lost revenues with other state revenue sources, without restrictions on how the revenues may be spent by local political subdivisions.

 If we act now to leave $857,012,658 Million in the pockets of North Dakota individuals and businesses on February 15, 2013 and $970 Million in the pockets of North Dakotans on February 15, 2014, the likely rapid diversification of our economy and associated economic benefits to North Dakota residents will be unparalleled! And as the years go by, all areas of our great state are likely to prosper, not just agriculture, oil and their support sectors. We can look forward to a future economy that is diverse enough to weather almost any “economic storm” placed before us; and hopefully without the taxpayer supported “economic development” schemes that “pick winners and losers”!

How does the state pull this off? One tested and well-nigh infallible method is to convince its subjects that it's protecting them from an even worse enemy than itself. This seldom fails. The majority nearly always fall for the idea that if the state is hurting someone else even worse than it's hurting them, it's on their side, and is therefore their friend, protector, and benefactor.

wise monkeys in the Oil Patch, Stein has good words for Nodaks, The candidates offer very different visions, Minnesotans hanging on words of wisdom from ND, the week of oddball trials, The 4 Bears Casino & Lodge, “Tribal members being evicted for oil field development,”  they are effectively confiscating private property, many reservation problems go unaddressed, The Cirrus plant in Grand Forks, Highway 52/281 in Carrington, fraternities and sororities have agreed to an alcohol ban, arrived at the prom in her big red pumpkin, DAKTOIDS

Envy is a deadly sin, but Team Obama desires it as an excellent divide-and-conquer tactic. Axelrod and Obama both cut their political teeth in Chicago, home of Obama inspiration Saul Alinsky, who preached the tactic of “isolating” a target and “demonizing” it. Romney’s riches fit the bill nicely.

The Republican Party may indeed be evolving into a truly conservative party, but the transformation is far from complete. Many rank-and-file Republicans have been becoming more conservative at different rates, so it is not surprising that the candidates struggled to find the “sweet spot” where one could establish himself as the ideal 2012 Republican.

The postulate to be debated was “The world would be better off without religion” which was the first clue to its unbalanced production. The question that came immediately to my mind was “Why not postulate that “The world is better off because of religion” . . .

I have concluded the following.  First, I will never retrieve my original identity.  It's gone forever.  Second, my identity is being bought and sold as would any comnmnodity.